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Jeff Kenyon <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeff Kenyon <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:49:37 -0400
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How does this program work?  It is like the older E-mail progrsams?  There
have been documents I've wanted to read that are . pdf but are scanned,
and when I open the reader it thinks nothing is there.





On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Don Moore wrote:

> The PDF to TXT program, the current version does a pretty fair job of reading scanned files.
>
> I don't have the exact web address for the Empowerment Zone, but it was posted here several months ago and the price for the program is right!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 8:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Jeff, Re: [VICUG-L] noticed something with Adobe and Vista
>
>
> Hello everyone, for some .pdf files I have found success with opening up the
> file.  If it doesn't read after the processing has finished to the
> following.
> 1.  Save the document with save as, under file then save as.  Name it and
> save it where you desire, and then go to that file and open it up.  It will
> reprocess again, but should be readable.  This doesn't work with all .pdf
> files especially those that have been scanned.  If anyone knows how these
> can be read let me know, and thanks in advance.
>     You also could try searching for the file on google and google has html
> versions of many .pdf files.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cheryll" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 5:26 AM
> Subject: Jeff, Re: [VICUG-L] noticed something with Adobe and Vista
>
>
> > Hello Jeff,
> >
> > I also am having trouble with reading pdf documents. Did you get it
> > resolved?  If so, will you please share the information with me.
> >
> > many thanks,
> > Cheryl
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:21 AM
> > Subject: [VICUG-L] noticed something with Adobe and Vista
> >
> >
> >> Hi everyone, I have noiticed something with Adobe 8 and Vista.  For some
> >> documents I have had a hard time reading documents even after the
> >> processing was complete.  It wouldn't do anything so Itried saving the
> >> .pdf file yesterday and it seems to be working out fine.  WHat was
> >> happening was that i would click on something in .pdf format and it would
> >> process but not read.  I am using Vista with Adobe 8.
> >>
> >>
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